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China pushes high-tech car standards Ministry issues working points for guidelines and regulations to go hand-in-hand with technology, Hao Yan reports. The standardization of autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems is accelerating in China, with the burgeoning technologies set to benefit society by minimizing human errors. Last Tuesday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Key Working Points of Intelligent Connected Vehicle Standardization for 2018 to promote and facilitate the... [Lire la suite]

Baidu gets the green light to test self-driving cars in China Chinese search giant Baidu has received approval to begin testing its self-driving cars in Beijing, Reuters reports. It is a sign of China’s strong support for the industry in the wake of the first pedestrian death from an autonomous Uber vehicle in the US. Baidu, which is known as China’s version of Google, received a permit to test its vehicles on 33 roads spanning around 65 miles (105 kilometers) in the city’s less-populated suburbs, the firm said in a... [Lire la suite]

9 Startups In India Working On Self Driving Technology Self driving technology has been one of the most talked about tech in the last one decade. With the likes of global tech giants such as Google, Tesla giving major goals into bringing self driving vehicles on road, India isn’t lagging much behind when it comes to efforts in automation technology. We have earlier seen companies like Tata willing to invest into this field, TCS developing self driving Nano, Infosys bringing self driving rikshaw, Tech Mahindra’s reported... [Lire la suite]

NEXYAD CEO at a MOVEO roundtable with Madame la Ministre Delphine GENY-STEPHANN 27th Huly 2018 :   CEO of NEXYAD (also Vice President of the French research cluster for mobility « MOV’EO ») was discussing at a round table with Delphine GENY-STEPHANN, French State Secretary (Minister) of Industry. This took place at MOV’EO headquarters location in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy, and it was about the future of French research clusters. It’s been a very interesting information and points of views... [Lire la suite]

Connected car impact on fleet management Technology is disrupting the trucking industry in a way we have never seen before. As automakers continue to innovate and define the future of the connected car and autonomous vehicles, the commercial transportation industry is taking note, and fleet managers are adjusting the way they oversee their vehicles and drivers. Imagine one of your rigs is cruising down the highway at a crisp clip. Traffic is not an issue because more than half of the vehicles on the road – including semi-trucks –... [Lire la suite]

Self-driving car technology: When will the robots hit the road? As cars achieve initial self-driving thresholds, some supporters insist that fully autonomous cars are around the corner. But the technology tells a (somewhat) different story. The most recent people targeted for replacement by robots? Car drivers—one of the most common occupations around the world. Automotive players face a self-driving-car disruption driven largely by the tech industry, and the associated buzz has many consumers expecting their next cars to... [Lire la suite]

This is the biggest benefit of connected vehicles for cities: new report Siemens’ Global Center of Competence Cities released the report – Cities in the Driving Seat — at last week’s World Cities Summit in Singapore. The greatest benefit is the opportunity for cities to plug gaps in their public transport network, for example between a train station and commuters’ homes. ‘Autonomous vehicles must be part of a wider transformation of urban areas.’- Pete Daw, Urban Development and Environment Director at the... [Lire la suite]

Tesla will start rolling out its ‘full self-driving’ package in August, Elon Musk says Over the weekend, avid Twitter user Elon Musk said that Tesla’s “long awaited” Version 9 of Autopilot would begin rolling out this August. “To date, Autopilot resources have rightly focused entirely on safety,” Musk tweeted. “With V9, we will begin to enable full self-driving features.” This would appear to put Musk on track to achieve the promise he made two years ago to offer “full self-driving” capabilities to Tesla owners by 2019. At the... [Lire la suite]

EDITION 2018, ADAS AND AD MARKET, ANALYSIS AND FORECAST – 2018 – 2030 M14 Intelligence predicts 60 million passenger cars will be equipped with some kind of automation by 2030. Out of which 30 million cars will be ADAS featured, 30 million will be Level 2/Partially automated while 5.3 million cars will be highly automated and driverless. The detail analysis of ADAS and AD market by SAE levels of automation, technology penetration, analog semiconductor content (camera or image sensors, ultrasonic... [Lire la suite]

Why Safe Drivers Aren't Always Charged The Lowest Car Insurance Rates This is almost like dispelling an urban myth, only it’s about car insurance. Specifically, it’s the notion that "safe" drivers – those having unblemished driving records – always pay lower premiums than accident-prone motorists. In fact just the opposite can be true among poorer and less-educated drivers, according to a recent investigation of car-insurance policy pricing conducted by the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. After... [Lire la suite]